innobackupex-1.5.1 --copy-back not working

[Frederic Descamps]

It seems that --copy-back doesn't work any more.

Version: 1.6.2 for Percona Server 5.5.9 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: 274)

How to reproduce:

Create a backup with innobackupex-1.5.1,
Then try to restore it:
[root@percona2 full]# innobackupex-1.5.1 --copy-back 2011-09-13_15-47-28

InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy
and Percona Inc 2009-2011. All Rights Reserved.

This software is published under
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.

IMPORTANT: Please check that the copy-back run completes successfully.
           At the end of a successful copy-back run innobackupex-1.5.1
           prints "completed OK!".

Can't exec "autodetect": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/innobackupex-1.5.1 line 1972.
innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: no 'mysqld' group in MySQL options
innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: OR no 'datadir' option in group 'mysqld' in MySQL options
[root@percona2 full]# cat /etc/my.cnf
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql

I changed the line 218 of innobackupex-1.5.1 like this:
if ($option_copy_back) {
- $option_ibbackup_binary = 'xtrabackup_51' if (! $option_ibbackup_binary);
+ $option_ibbackup_binary = 'xtrabackup_51';
} elseif ($option_apply_log) {

From the manual about --ibbackup-binary
[...]
However, when option --copy-back is specified,
        "xtrabackup_51" is the command used.
[...]

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

Duplicate of bug #817132.